Michigan as a province, territory and state, the twenty-sixth member of the federal Union . ty was to havejoined him with a number of men, coming on fromMackinac by the eastern shore of the lake. When atlength Tonty arrived with a portion of his men, theothers, owing to scarcity of provisions, having taken tothe land to subsist by hunting, December was here andthe winter was on. The party embarked in canoes andascended the river to the site of the present city of SouthBend. Here they debarked and shouldering theircanoes started on the portage to the Illinois river. Theypassed on to Fort Crevec
Michigan as a province, territory and state, the twenty-sixth member of the federal Union . ty was to havejoined him with a number of men, coming on fromMackinac by the eastern shore of the lake. When atlength Tonty arrived with a portion of his men, theothers, owing to scarcity of provisions, having taken tothe land to subsist by hunting, December was here andthe winter was on. The party embarked in canoes andascended the river to the site of the present city of SouthBend. Here they debarked and shouldering theircanoes started on the portage to the Illinois river. Theypassed on to Fort Crevecoeur on that river where theyestablished themselves for the winter. Early in thespring La Salle, leaving Tonty behind, set out to returnto Fort Frontenac, He followed the route by which hehad come and after encountering many difficultiesreached Fort Miamis, which he had built the autumnbefore at the mouth of the St. Joseph river. Here hefound two men whom he had sent to Mackinac fornews of the Griffon. They knew nothing of her them to rejoin Tonty, La Salle set out on foot. I—I MICHIGAN AS A PROVINCE 6^ on his journey eastward. He traversed the unknownwilds of southern Michigan and reaching the Huronriver he and his companions built a canoe in which theparty floated down the stream until their progress wasbarred by sunken logs and prostrate trunks of out thence across the country he reached thebanks of the Detroit which he crossed on a raft, pur-suing his way to Point Pelee. Here he built a canoewhich enabled him to arrive safely at his point of firstdeparture on the Niagara. So it is seen that La Salle was not only one of thefirst to navigate and explore the coasts of the lowerpeninsula of Michigan, but he was the first of all whitemen, so far as known, to penetrate its interior. Itwould be interesting, did it fall in line with the scopeof this work, to follow his subsequent career. In thespring of 1682 he with Tonty and others, navigated theIlli
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